The Department of Defense plans to issue a new report this year assessing the cost performance of major programs and the effectiveness of the agencies or commands overseeing them, according the latest update of the Pentagon’s Better Buying Power initiative.
Pentagon acquisition chief Frank Kendall unveiled the newest version of Better Buying Power 2.0 during a roundtable with reporters this week. He said the this version is attempting to build and implement the practices outlined in its initial release several months ago and on first guidelines provided two years ago called Better Buying Power 1.0.
The goal of the initiative is not to introduce major reforms to acquisition, but instead to identify problems and make “incremental improvements” to the process, he said.
“This is for me a process of continuous improvement,” he said.
The document instructs the Pentagon’s Acquisition Policy Analysis Center (APAC) to publish the first of the annual reports, called the Report on the Performance of the Defense Acquisition System, this year. The release of subsequent reports will be timed with the budget roll out.
“This is a new initiative to establish an improved ability within DoD to measure and report on trends in the productivity and performance of the defense acquisition system’s institutions and programs and to correlate those trends with policy choices and best practices,” Kendall said in his Apr. 24 memorandum.
The report initially will focus on major acquisition programs but could over time be expanded.
“The overarching goal is to enhance our ability to make sound policies and decisions about defense acquisition best practices and to understand the root causes of variations in the performance of the organizations, in industry and government, that are responsible for developing and delivering our products and services,” Kendall’s memo said.
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